Version 2.6 of our iPhone and iPad application has been released !      

     The most significant new fetaure is that you can now create a user account. With this account, you won't loose anymore your favorite rock climbing areas (if you change your phone), you'll find them back on our website and you can now create your own favorites photos album :)

About photos... This new release push the photo features forward with a new vertical photo browser, allowing you to quickly watch all photos of an area. And you can now share our photos by mail, Facebook or Twitter and even save it to your phone !

Our digital guidebooks store has been updated too. It now shows the exact grades repartition in a really nice chart.

Last, but not least, you can now find rock climbing areas or digital guidebooks right in your spotlight search. Access directly to the details or to the directions !

It's "a kind of magic" :) And it's not the end !

     I met Nils Favre at Rocklands at a party at the Pakhuys campsite where climbers around the world meet to discuss their passion for hours over a few beers ... "The Place To Be" in summer, kind of place where lambdas climbers met elite. Privilege of our sport among others. Nils knew ClimbingAway and retorted: "I was sure that there were French behind this website!" :). Concerned about the ethics like us, he deplored the large traces of magnesia left to indicate holds: "Brush your tick marks!" he said :) In addition to boulder, he told me also love the crag and he regretted enough time to invest in it. At the time, Nils managed the feat of climbing to the highest level while exercising his carpenter clinging to his list of conquests some of the most difficult problems of the world to 8c. Nils is also the author of a video: "Blocz". With his girlfriend Vivi Monteiro, climber and author of most of its beautiful photos, they travel the globe in search of amazing boulder problems. Everywhere in Switzerland where they originate but also in France, Spain, South Africa, Namibia ...

     Have a look to this talented climber through his photos he has generously allowed to present on ClimbingAway. Thank you !

Gilles Brunot bolted it, Cédric Lachat sent it :)

Takamine is free and graded to a "little" 9a by the same man. As soon as announced, the digital guidebook has been updated !

The opportunity to focus on the crag, and it's Gilles Brunot himself, hyperactive bolter around Chamonix, who write it.

Bionnassay crag is perched at 1500 m altitude in the municipality of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, away from the noise of the valley. This is one of the closest hard crag of Chamonix. You climb it with a view on the glaciers of the domes of Miage. The lower area is the most accessible, the beginner level to 5c +, you don't climb when it's cold because the forest hides the sun at the foot of the routes, some of which are 40m. In the higher area, most beautiful, you heats up especially from 6c and then attempt beautiful routes in level 7, 8 and 9a to the moment, but other projects are waiting to be deflowered .

The top sector, with its sunshine, is climbable on sunny winter days even if it sometimes takes the approach march with snow up to their knees! In summer, you have to come early, the sun coming around 13h. Climbing style side, a lot of crimps, small or large, slopers or some short cracks. In short, one of the most beautiful spots near Chamonix, where you can climb in all seasons.

Our digital guidebook is up to date on Android and iOS :)

          New Caledonia is paradise!

     Idyllic sandy beaches, coconut palms, incredible lagoon populated by a myriad of fish of all sizes and all colors, the Kanak people and their tribal life and ancestral customs, the west coast with its open spaces, its herds and bushmen (sort of local cowboys that hunt deer as we do our shopping).

And for some time, New Caledonia is also a vertical adventure country!

     Indeed in Noumea, the capital, Magenta climbing gym has become a mecca for sports. Since the organization of the world youth championships this place is always full. From morning until evening primary schools to senior everyone comes tighten holds and fill their arms.

    Parallel to the development of Nouméa, the town of Koumac in the north has also caught the fever of verticality. Spurred on Vertikaledonie club and territorial technical employee, routes were opened, initiations were implemented, passions were born and a sports movement is created.

     Today there are 150 routes from 4 to 8a on Les Roches de Notre Dame, fifteen on the Koumac cave and 70 problems on the boulder area of Haute Néhoué. In the middle of a forest without age where grows sprawling banyan trees, Caledonian limestone offers a number of high class routes. Single pitch up to 35 meters in vertical or setep walls, ending up to the canopy and promise memorable climbs. A little hot during the austral summer (mid-November to mid-April) although some areas are shaded and super nice winter (June to August with 20 to 23 °C), weather permitting go climbing all year in shorts/sandals. The two flagship areas of sport climbing are printed on a paper guidebook and ClimbingAway ethical and digital guidebooks :)

     Finally, each year a territorial scale rally is organized on the crag of the north and offers the community rises the country the opportunity to share and enjoy together a unifying weekend that highlights the uniqueness of the Caledonian climbing .

     Last months, we worked hard on our digital and ethical guidebooks. You can now access to more than 50 guidebooks right on your ClimbingAway iOS or Android apps. And the digitalisation is going on :) But in recent weeks the ClimbingAway team has worked on improving the Android and Apple's free apps :) It's always good news especially as the latest iOS was released more than 1 year ago!

        Driven by our talented new developer, the Android application is starting a cycle of short developments with upcoming regular updates. The goal is to catch the iOS app and continue to expand the capabilities. For this first update: More reliable informations, better disaplyed and enhaced!

> The database has been completely cleaned and homogenization of the names of regions and departments for 108 countries now allows a clear navigation in the "Areas" menu without old duplicates.

> The addition of essential information: Ban on the rock climbing areas concerned.

> Improving maps with the ability to choose the satellite, hybrid or plan maps.

> A much improved navigation on the world map with the removal of disapointing un-zoom upon return on the map: No more tantrums! Now when viewing the page on an area, when you go back, you find the area of the map that you left with the same zoom level.

     And Apple has validated version 2.4 this night with interesting optimisations :

• 3D Touch shortcuts for happy owners of iPhone 6s and 6sPlus. Find a rock climbing area around has never been so easy!

• A reduction of more than 80% of the data exchanged with the base thanks to  data compression. Your operator fair use will appreciate :)

• The database also cleaned for this app (see Android app).

• Our digital guidebooks store gets a clearer presentation and the possibility of sorts to find it in the fifty topos!

• an iOS9 compilation for optimal execution.

     Come on! Climbing season is now well launched (ok with lot of rain...), so good discoveries among our 6200 rock climbing areas and as usual ... Have good Climbs !!!